Title: Shape by Shape
Illustrator: Suse Macdonald
Publisher: Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Year: 2009
Format: Hardcover
Genre: Picture, concept book, toy book
Reading Level: Early Elementary
Interest-Level: Assisted or just starting to read alone
Topics: Picture Story, Shapes, Caldecott, Concept
Summary: This book is great when teaching about shapes. It is fun, easy and quick to read. Children like it because it interactive. Shape by Shape starts out by asking a question, Do you know what I am? On each page it describes a shape for example, I have round eyes. As the story goes on it puts the shapes together and builds a creature. At the end the children see that the all the shapes put together end up being the biggest dinosaur ever, a Brachiosaurus!
Extension Activities: You could have the kids make sock puppets and have the puppet talk about the different shapes the see around in the classroom. You could play a memory game where the students have to match the shapes together using their memory.
